I have just gone through the press release from CERN. They said that investigations at CERN following a large helium leak into sector 3-4 of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tunnel have indicated that the most likely cause of the incident was a faulty electrical connection between two of the accelerator’s magnets. Before a full [...]

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Today is 10th september,2008 and LHC has started up. Beam is in the LHC now. So CERN is really hot. Two blogs have started live bloging to keep us updated - Cosmic Variance and symmetry breaking . You can also get updates in the blog of  Tommaso Dorigo. Here is the plan for tomorrow . Best of luck for LHC.

Continue reading " First beam in Large Hadron Collider "

I have just visited Guardian’s Particle Physics section and found that they have really made a nice flash presentation of Cern’s Large Hadron Collider( LHC ) . Yes.. that Large Hadron Collider for which physicists are waiting for a long time and after 20 years of preparation it is ready to switch. This is [...]

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